Ambitions

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How does an impoverished and illiterate Irish Catholic immigrant rise from abject poverty and discrimination in mid-19th Century America to become America's boxing champion a millionaire gambling entrepreneur a twice-elected member of the United States Congress and a twice-elected member of the New York State Senate?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The accomplishments of John Morrissey (1831-1878) are well-documented. What's missing is how? Certainly luck timing resolve and intelligence played key roles but there was something else something more powerful and motivating that helped lift him against all odds to the pinnacle of success in sports business and politics during a time when hatred of Irish Catholics permeated American society. That something was the unlikely marriage to a young woman from a respected Protestant family a recent graduate of Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary and a person with driving ambitions as powerful as her husband's.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In Ambitions a three-book series of novels the author teases Susannah Morrissey out of the shadows of John Morrissey's life and places her and her ambitions in the critical roles played in this extraordinary story of love and struggle perseverance and triumph.</span></p>